The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens..H. Baldwin, 1793 |
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... ancient literature , like any other man on the fame occafion , he rather carries his acquirements above , than below the truth . Jealoufy ! " cries Mr. Upton ; " people will allow others any qualities , but thofe upon which they highly ...
... ancient literature , like any other man on the fame occafion , he rather carries his acquirements above , than below the truth . Jealoufy ! " cries Mr. Upton ; " people will allow others any qualities , but thofe upon which they highly ...
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... ancient quartos : " and even Sir Thomas Hanmer's performance was known to him only by Mr. Warburton's representation . " 9 I find the character of this work pretty early delineated : " " Twas Greek at firft , that Greek was Latin made ...
... ancient quartos : " and even Sir Thomas Hanmer's performance was known to him only by Mr. Warburton's representation . " 9 I find the character of this work pretty early delineated : " " Twas Greek at firft , that Greek was Latin made ...
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... Ancient English Poetry , hath fhewn our author to have been fometimes contented with a legendary ballad . The story of the mijanthrope is told in almost every collection of the time ; and particularly in two books , with which ...
... Ancient English Poetry , hath fhewn our author to have been fometimes contented with a legendary ballad . The story of the mijanthrope is told in almost every collection of the time ; and particularly in two books , with which ...
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... ancient poets , fays Mr. Richardfon , have not hit upon this beauty ; fo lavish have they been in their defcriptions of the fwan . Homer calls the fwan long - necked , dorixossipov ; but how much more pittorefque , if he had arched this ...
... ancient poets , fays Mr. Richardfon , have not hit upon this beauty ; fo lavish have they been in their defcriptions of the fwan . Homer calls the fwan long - necked , dorixossipov ; but how much more pittorefque , if he had arched this ...
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... ancient as Shakspeare's time . " The paffages on which these fagacious remarks are made , occur in The Midfummer Night's Dream ; and exhibit , we fee , a clear proof of acquaintance with the Latin clafficks . But we are not answerable ...
... ancient as Shakspeare's time . " The paffages on which these fagacious remarks are made , occur in The Midfummer Night's Dream ; and exhibit , we fee , a clear proof of acquaintance with the Latin clafficks . But we are not answerable ...
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Página 506 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor Muse can praise too much.
Página 215 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Página 506 - And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
Página 176 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Página 315 - Jonson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor. He began early to make Essayes at Dramatique Poetry, which at that time was very lowe, and his playes tooke well. He was a handsome well shap't man, very good company, and of a very readie and pleasant smooth witt.
Página 182 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Página 506 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Página 78 - How would it haue ioyed braue Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and haue his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least (at seuerall times) who, in the Tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Página 530 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror that...
Página 137 - In the city of Gloucester the manner is (as I think it is in other like corporations) that, when players of enterludes come to...